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The blank media list for firmware revision 1.0f is now fairly large. It seems that the media listed (for 44x writing) is often not available commercially, not specified well enough to differentiate from similar products from the same manufacturer or the media product is private labeled in the USA and therefore not identifiable.

Where can we find out how to identify the best media and determine where best to buy it?

In adition to disabling the DMA in Windows, I disabled UltraDMA in the BIOS and set the IDE Mode to "Mode 4" in the BIOS. With this setting, the drive was able to burn a CD in 1.5 minutes. I have an AMD-K6 2 400 on a SOYO 5EMM with a VIA 586B chipset. Good luck with your Yamaha CRW-F1 !

-yollo

quote:Originally posted by Photonic

Hi Perror!

I had the same problem as you! I even couldn't format a CD-RW. Howerver, all I can tell is that it's not a drive-failure!

The support-team of yamaha told me to disable DMA of the CRW-F1! Well, It can't write at full-speed now, but everything else works fine. I need to change my MOBO and CPU to solve this problem.

@ Perror: What MOBO do you have? I got an old no-name MOBO with via-chipset and AMD K6-500! IT'S about 2 or 3 years old!

@ll: What do you think about this? I'm going to buy a new one within the next three months: Epox 8k3a (via KT333)and AMD Athlon XP 2200+

I'm currently owning a Plextor 24x and I consider upgrading. One important thing is that the new drive would have to be black, so I think I'll have to decide between the Yamaha F1 and the Plextor 48x.

But there is one point i can't really find in the reviews (if it is there i appologise in advance): "Noise" How noise are these drives? I mean it wouldn't be too much of a problem if they'd produce some noise during burning, but how do those two drives compare when you look at the noise they produce while e.g. playing a game?

And which one does detect CDs faster after they have been inserted?

I know that these questions are no typical CR-Writer questions, but I guess BOTH of them would be pretty decent writers for me, so these are the questions I would like to sort out before I buy one.

quote:Originally posted by DarkLord ..."Noise" How noise are these drives? I mean it wouldn't be too much of a problem if they'd produce some noise during burning, but how do those two drives compare when you look at the noise they produce while e.g. playing a game? ...

The Yamaha CRW-F1 is a relatively quiet drive. You have to remember though, that the higher the spin speed of the disc, the more noise it will make. The F1 spins discs at 44X, or 8700 rpm, so it makes more noise than your current drive (24X).

yeah, sure, but does it *always* speed up the disk (during reading, not writing) when not really necessary? Like... audio/video Playback off CD or checking for a copy protected game cd. Some drives really speed up the disk even for these tasks - this is just unecessary noise :-/